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My First Day
Today was my first day at Wealthfront. It was awesome. Let me explain a little about myself, so you understand my full meaning. I’m a product guy (Wealthfront’s first), and product guys are supposed to understand the user and the business. Strictly speaking, we aren’t supposed to write code. Even if we’re totally uncloseted geeks…. Read more
Moneyball: Using Modern Portfolio Theory To Win Your Fantasy Sports League
Football is pretty amazing. A few short months ago, we weren’t even sure if we were even going to have a season. Now, we have 49er-mania taking over the Bay Area, the possibility for a rematch of one of the greatest superbowls ever between the Giants and the Patriots, and Ray Lewis, well, he’s just… Read more
Converting dynamic SVG to PNG with node.js, d3 and Imagemagick
Visitors to Wealthfront might notice we’re using SVG to render the risk meter in our questionnaire, as well as your performance projection and other charts. We build our visualizations using d3.js, a fantastic library that provides just the right amount of abstraction on top of SVG to allow us to develop robust visualizations quickly. SVG… Read more
Our CEO Andy Rachleff talks about VC, entrepreneurship and Wealthfront at Dec 8th 7pm in SF Stanford Alum Club
Check out Andy Rachleff, our awesome CEO, who will speak at the Stanford SF Alum Club tomorrow night. He’s going to talk about entrepreneurship from three perspectives, developed through his career as a long-term venture capitalist at Benchmark Capital funding technology start-ups, as a lecturer teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School, and as the CEO… Read more
Interesting Reads
We’re going to try something new, a roundup of interesting links that are being passed around by Wealthfront Engineers. A brief history of digital typefaces Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8 by Brian Goetz A javascript type inference engine Alan Kay on complexity in software and how biology might help us,… Read more
Siri for Continuous Deployment
It’s late on Friday afternoon, we’ve just finished an important marketing release (not a deployment which happen about 50 times a day) and playing with Siri ignited an interest in making our Deployment Manager respond to voice commands. Luckily x-webkit-speech makes that easy. Obviously the big demo here was going to be deploying services based… Read more